SALUTE: Veteran's Day Remembrance Book 2014

VETERANS DAY 2014

PASSION FOR PLANES

SURVIVING MEMORIES

A publication of the Brainerd Dispatch and Echo Publishing

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We join all of America

in celebrating the endearingprinciples on which our

nation was founded.We proudly salute the men and

women of our Armed Forces, along with their families,

who defend those principles with courage and honor.

in celebrating the endearingin celebrating the endearing

who defend those principles who defend those principles with courage and honor.with courage and honor.

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copyright© 2013VOLUME 2, FALL 2014

In This Issue

On The Cover Dennis Russell Scanlan Jr., front

with the Captain bars on his cap, is shown in the Control Tower in

Alconbury, England, on October 5, 1945.

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Dennis G. Havel Sr.Army, Vietnam 1967-1968

1st Infantry Division

Robert G. HurstKorean War

1951-19541st Calvary Division

LeRoy Siegel (Center)Korean War

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CONTENTS ‘14

Homes For Our TroopsHomes For Our TroopsHomes For Our TroopsHomes For Our TroopsHomes For Our TroopsHomes For Our TroopsHomes For Our TroopsHomes For Our TroopsHomes For Our TroopsHomes For Our TroopsHomes For Our TroopsHomes For Our TroopsHomes For Our TroopsHomes For Our TroopsHomes For Our TroopsHomes For Our TroopsHomes For Our TroopsHomes For Our TroopsQualifying veterans receive mortgage-free homes from an award winning non-profit organization.

Dinner NightDinner NightDinner NightDinner NightDinner NightDinner NightDinner NightDinner NightDinner NightDinner NightThe Elks invite veterans along with their families to dinner.

Passion For PlanesPassion For PlanesPassion For PlanesPassion For PlanesPassion For PlanesPassion For PlanesPassion For PlanesPassion For PlanesPassion For PlanesPassion For PlanesPassion For PlanesPassion For PlanesPassion For PlanesBomber pilot, innovator, designer, manufacturer and CEO, Dennis Scanlan’s photos and letters arecompiled into a book.

Still SurvivingStill SurvivingStill SurvivingStill SurvivingStill SurvivingStill SurvivingStill SurvivingStill SurvivingStill SurvivingStill SurvivingStill SurvivingStill SurvivingStill SurvivingStill SurvivingStill SurvivingStill SurvivingLundrigan talks about his medic career and the affects of his experiences in Vietnam.

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Air ForceDeceased February 15, 1994

Marvin Lee Johnson

Army 1955-19577th Army - Germany

sGT Dennis M. oTTeM

Army, WWII 1942-1946Deceased August 26, 1980

CharLes B. Cronin

Army, Vietnam, 1969-19702nd Battalion 8th

Joseph F. Cronin

Building homes, rebuilding lives.

“These homes restore some of the freedom and independence our Veter-ans sacrificed defending ours, and enable them

to focus on their family, recovery, and rebuilding

their lives,” ~ HFOT

For more information or to donate:www.hfotusa.org • (866) 7 TROOPS

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HHomes for Our Troops (HFOT) is a privately funded 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization build-

ing specially adapted, mortgage-free homes nationwide for the most severely injured Veterans from Iraq and Afghani-stan.

Since its inception in 2004, over 90 percent of donations to Homes for Our Troops has gone to directly support Veterans.

As of September 20, 2014, HFOT has built 168 specially adapted homes nationwide. There are currently 50 Veterans on the active project list. The goal is to build a home for every Veteran who qualifies for one of the specially adapted homes.

HFOT has received Charity Navigator’s high-est rating of 4 Stars every year since 2008. Char-ity Watch has awarded HFOT an A rating and included us on its list of Top-Rated Military & Veterans Charities.

The average cost to construct each specially adapted home nationwide runs $430,000. Homes for Our Troops receives no assistance from the Department of Veterans Affairs or any other government organization. Nearly 70 percent of operational budget is generated by individual donors and community fundraisers nationwide who step up to help our American heroes by co-ordinating everything from lemonade stands to golf tournaments. The remaining financial sup-port they receive is from corporations, foun-dations and corporate sponsors.


Navy Deceased April 3, 1978

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Army

Gary F oLson

Army, 1942-1945 Deceased December 1992

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Army Deceased May 27, 2012

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In 1907, the BPO Elks Grand Lodge designated by resolution June 14 as Flag Day, Mandating Observation was adopted by every lodge in 1911.Community Interests: Every other month a visit to St. Cloud Veteran’s Hospital to play BINGO Free dinners every Tuesday night for Central Lakes College enrolled Veterans and their families

September thru May Participate in the Disabled Veterans Turkey Hunt and the Disabled Veterans Deer Hunt at Camp Ripley We support the Brainerd Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) Donate to Wreaths for the Fallen Offer a free week of camp to 9-13 year old children of deployed soldiers

at the MN Elks Youth Camp during Troops Week

“So Long As There Are Veterans, The Benovolent And Protective Order Of Elks Will Never Forget Them”

Thank You Veterans For Your Service To Our Country So We May Enjoy Our Freedom!Interested in becoming a member, visit www.brainerdelks.org

Brainerd Elks #615 215 S. 9th Street,

Brainerd 829-2643 after 3pm

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Participate in the Disabled Veterans Turkey Hunt and the Disabled Veterans Deer Hunt at Camp Ripley

Marines, 1988-1993

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Army Medic

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Army, Korea and WWII

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ArmyDeceased November 4, 2009

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Marines, 2011- present

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Army, 1940-1944Deceased (KIA) Dec. 6, 1994

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Army, 1987-1990

keiTh Dwyer

Navy, 1944-1945

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Army

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Marine CorpsIow Jima - Guam - Guadacanal

TheoDore M. oLson

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This Veteran’s Day Take Time ToHonor All Veterans For Their Service

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Air Force, 1953-1957Deceased May 1, 2014

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Army, Korea121 Evac Hospital

Deceased Dec. 22, 2006

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1st Army HQ, WWII, 1943-1945

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Army, 1971-1972

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Army, Persian Gulf War

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Army; Philippines, Japan, WWII

Deceased Sept. 11, 2004

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NavyDeceased Sept. 24, 2013

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TThey say a meal will bring people together. That is the case on Tues-

day nights at the Elks Lodge in downtown Brainerd.

For the past three years, the Elks has hosted a family dinner night for veterans who are enrolled at Central Lakes Col-lege in Brainerd.

The Elks received a grant to make the dinner possible. dinner possible.

James VanDuyn, public relations chairman of the Elks Lodge in Brainerd,

said the Elks applies for the grant every year to support the veterans. He said the grant is part of the community invest-ment program.

“That’s what the Brainerd Elks do, sup-port veterans,” VanDuyn said. “We have a motto that says ‘So long as there are veterans, the Benevolent and Protective Order Of Elks will never forget them.’”

The dinner is limited to 10 veterans and their guests. The dinner on Oct. 14 consisted of steak, baked potato, garlic bread, coleslaw and a variety of desserts. Other Elks members also are welcome to enjoy the meal.

“We have around 60-80 people Tues-

day nights and when the snowbirds leave we have about 40,” said VanDuyn.we have about 40,” said VanDuyn.

“I’m proud we can do this dinner for the veterans,” said VanDuyn. “We’re

Veterans Dinner Night at the Elks is well received

DINNER NIGHT

Photos By Kelly humPhrey

By Jy Jy ennifer stocKinger

Brainerd Dispatch Staff Writer

Jonathan and Karen Nieman with son, Leroy.

James Dehen (Left) with Jeff McArthur enjoy visiting at the Elks’ Dinner Night.


giving back to those who gave their lives for us. We have so much appreciation for them.

“During dinner we talk about every-day life, about their service or where they served.”

Jeff McArthur of Baxter began coming to the dinners in September.

“I’m fairly new to coming to the din-ners,” McArthur said. “I enjoy it. I heard about the dinners last year but with my schedule it didn’t work out.”

McArthur volunteered with the Elk’s fishing fling this past spring and learned more about the lodge. It was at that point, that he wanted to go to the dinners at the Elks as he believes in its mission.

McArthur was in the Army for 23 years. He served as a field artillery offi-cer in Desert Storm from 1990-91 and he was in the scout truck for command security during the Iraq War in 2011-12. He retired in 2012.

“I pretty much joined the Army right out of high school,” he said. “That’s why I never went to college right away. Going to college was not a priority for me at the time. … That is why I am going now.”

McArthur is in his second year in the business management program at CLC. He also is in the work study program at the CLC Veterans Center. He helps with the Second Harvest, where he col-lects day-old food from businesses such as Starbucks, Caribou Coffee and Olive Garden.

At CLC, McArthur also helps with a Post Traumatic Stress Disorder support group.

McArthur said VanDuyn and the other Elks members have been welcoming to the veterans. He said VanDuyn also goes to the Brainerd Veterans Administration

(VA) Outpatient Clinic, where he talks with the veterans, listens to their stories and thanks them.

“I’m kind of shy and I don’t think I did anything special,” McArthur said. “It’s hard to hear people thanking me for my services, but I’m getting better at accept-ing it.”

Jonathan and Karen Nieman of Brain-erd and their almost 1-year-old son Le-roy - who were not married at the time when the Elks family dinner night start-ed three years ago - have been coming since the dinner was established. They said they heard about the free meal for veterans and thought, “Why not come?”

Jonathan Nieman served in the Army from 2005-07 and Karen Nieman was able to attend the dinners because she was living with her father, who is a Navy veteran.

“This is a chance to meet other vets and guests and to expand friendships,” Karen Nieman said. We (Karen and Jonathan) got to know each other better by coming here.”

Jonathan is in his fourth year at CLC. He earned his welding degree and is working on certificates for underwater search and rescue and for Emergency Medical Technician. Karen is in her third year working on her associates of arts de-gree.

The Niemans spend time at the col-lege’s veterans center, too, as they enjoy talking with other veterans.

“I was lucky enough to have never gone to Iraq,” Jonathan Nieman said, but he was stationed at three different bases during his two-year Army career. He was

discharged in 2007 because of a knee in-jury. He was stationed in Fort Jackson, S.C.; Fort Huachuca, Ariz.; and Shofield Barracks, Hawaii.

Nieman said his role in the Army was as an intelligence analysis.

Michael Grosskreutz of Brainerd was at the October dinner for the first time with his wife, Hayley, and 9-year-old son, Vincent. Grosskreutz said they decided to come because they enjoy talking to other veterans.

Grosskreutz was in the Army from 1989-93 and served in Desert Storm as a combat engineer.

“I blew things up and defused bombs,” he said.

After dinner, Grosskreutz helped the Elks volunteers by serving coffee and do-ing other chores.

Elks Exalted Ruler James Dehen said the veterans’ dinners have been well re-ceived.

“Vets are important to us,” said Dehen. “They deserve respect. … We watched when the Vietnam vets came back and they were not treated well. … We will never forget where our vets have been.”

Dehen said the veterans from the Iraq War have been welcomed home in a much better manner and are respected, but, he added, “They still have some challenges and need our support.”

Dehen said he is not a veteran, but his father was in the air force. He said one reason he joined the Elks was because of its support of veterans.

Besides the veterans dinner, the Elks also hosts Burger Night on Thursdays, Chef ’s Choice on Fridays and also has a Polish Feed on Wednesdays for its mem-bers. VanDuyn said there are about 250 members of the Elks and currently they are in the process of recruiting more members. Anyone interested can go on-line at www.brainerdelks.org or call 829-2643.

JENNIFER STOCKINGER may be JENNIFER STOCKINGER may be JENNIFER STOCKINGERreached at jennifer.stockinger@brain-

erddispatch.com or 855-5851. Follow on Twitter at www.twitter.com/jennewsgirl.Twitter at www.twitter.com/jennewsgirl.

James Dehen (Left) with Jeff McArthur enjoy

“This is a chance to meet other vets and

guests and to expand friendships.”

~ Karen Nieman

“I’m proud that we can do this dinner for the veterans.”

~ James VanDuyn

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Dennis Russell Scanlan Jr. (1914-1993) of St. Paul, who spent summers on

Schaefer’s Point on Gull Lake with his wife, Peg, was in the 482nd Path-finder Bomb Group in the Mighty 8th Air Force, which was formed in August 1943 during World War II. Scanlan described it as a “bastard outfit.”

“We were the first bomber group to be equipped with radar,” he said. “The Path-finder label meant that a B-17 equipped with a radar scanner would fly lead position in a combat wing, and all bombers would drop their bombs based on that bomb re-lease. The trouble was that the radar was housed underneath the nose of the bomber and stuck out like a bathtub. German fighter pilots soon learned to spot these planes and knock them out first if at all possible.”

Scanlan worked his way up to senior flying control officer. He was in Alconbury, England, for 33 months. His family still has all the letters he wrote to Peg during the war, and all of Peg’s letters to him.

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Echo Journal Editor Denny and Peg went on to have six sons and three daughters. Denny and his father, “Pops,” established The Scan-lan Group Of Companies, designing and manufacturing surgical instru-ments and products, based in St. Paul. Today the company includes four third generation family members, two fourth generation family members and one fifth generation family member.

Three of his children - Tim, Joe and Brigid - helped compile a hard-cover

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“As a boy, Denny Scanlan would spend the afternoons across the street listening to stories of the Nelson boys who had just returned from World War I. They had been fighter pilots and brought back pieces of airplanes to show him. Those bits and pieces were what Denny’s dreams were made of and turned his gaze forever towards the sky.

“Denny soon encountered obstacles that would threaten his dream of be-coming a fighter pilot, but he continued

to fix his eyes skyward. This perspective carried into all realms of his life as he became a pioneer in Minnesota avia-tion, veteran of World War II, an in-novator, designer and manufacturer of surgical instrumentation, and the CEO of Scanlan International.

“This story is the first-person ac-count of the life of an ‘everyman,’ who sought lofty expectations from life and challenged those around him to do the same.”

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Practicing law is in Lundrigan’s blood. His father was an attorney in Pine River, and his grandfather was an attorney in Cass Lake. It was natural that he would follow in their steps.

Lundrigan grew up in Pine River. At age 24, when he graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in English and a minor in Spanish, it was fully his intention to become an attorney, and he eventually did, but not without a slight delay in his plans.

“Before I joined the Army I took my law school entrance exams. It would have been in 1969. I was accepted into the university law school. I went to law school and spoke to the dean,” Lundrigan said. “The draft was pretty active at that time and I was 1-A. He said, ‘Why don’t you go into the Army and get your

service obligation out of the way? It would be better than if you are in law school and got drafted out of law school.’ He said, ‘We’ll hold your place.’ It turns out he was a brigadier general in the National Guard.”

Lundrigan agreed. He went to basic training in Seattle, Wash., in June. Afterward the Army put his education to good use.

“I had a degree in English, a minor in Spanish. I could type. I pointed this out to them. I would be a great clerk for someone in Spain and South America. They made me a medic,” Lundrigan said.

Lundrigan tells people he was

trained in two things. “Start the breathing. Stop the bleeding.”

“Very rude, very crude, but no-body died. I saved two lives with mouth to mouth resuscitation. That is quite the experience,” Lun-drigan said.

Even as a medic, Lundrigan didn’t do what he expected right away. He worked at Fort Jackson, S.C. test-ing swimming pools, ponds or any other supply of water. Lundrigan’s duty was posh in comparison to what many soldiers were doing at the time.

“Then I ran over the colonel’s dog,” Lundrigan said.

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-ing swimming pools, ponds or any other supply of water. Lundrigan’s duty was posh in comparison to what many soldiers were doing at

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Lundrigan had driven to Col. Redfern’s home where he was greeted by a gold-en retriever and a long-haired Dachs-hund. His time on Easy Street ended after the retriever knocked the Dachs-hund under the back tires of his jeep.

He first told the colonel’s wife, then he brought the dog to a veterinarian to see what he should do. When the vet-erinarian realized whose dog it was, he hid under his desk and kicked out Lundrigan.

“A week later I had orders to go to Vietnam,” Lundrigan said.

Lundrigan arrived in Vietnam with no place to go.

“I had no unit to which I was as-signed. I just kept going north,” he said.

Lundrigan spent the next two years passed from unit to unit, almost al-ways heading north. He was told they needed medics in the DMZ, or Demili-tarized Zone. A unit of Army Rangers met him in Quang Tri and took him with them for a while.

Lundrigan said when he arrived the action was winding down. He spent most of his time on reconnaissance missions. Even during the slow times, the Vietnamese war was no cake walk.

He carried the same gear that every other soldier carried, except that he also carried medical supplies.

“You had your rucksack, which had your life in it. Then you had your aid bag and I used to take a bottle of plas-ma along with what they call a cutter kit. That’s a kit with a needle and tube. I could take that off and use that one time, but if I had to use it that was nec-essary,” Lundrigan said.

When the Army Rangers were done with their mission, they left and Lun-drigan was picked up by an artillery unit.

“That was where I spent most of my time along the DMZ and then when this operation came they called Lam Son 719. That was the invasion of Laos in ‘71. We invaded Laos to cut the Ho Chi Minh trail. My unit went on Route 9. At the time, Route 9 was a highway, but it leads across Vietnam into Laos,” Lundrigan said

Lundrigan’s unit led self-propelled tracked vehicles carrying artillery to the border of Laos near an old village called Lao Bao. There, a plateau looked into Laos. They set up South Vietnam-ese soldiers on top of the bluff with artil-lery to fire against North Vietnamese troops and went down below. That’s where things got ugly.

“It turned out that ridge had caves in its face. In those caves were artillery pieces with the little people (North Vietnamese). We had the South Vietnamese on the top. The North Vietnamese in the caves, and us below,” Lund-rigan said. “It wasn’t good. That was a real bad place.We took a lot of casual-ties right there.”

Lundrigan survived Lam Son 719, but not unscathed. Working around artillery led to major and permanent hearing loss, and Lundrigan mustered

out his obligation, completing it June 4, 1971. But he brought his nightmares home with him.

“I can’t sit down and talk about Viet-nam and what happened to me and what I did and what I saw, but you see things. Sometimes they are so bad that you still see them, but your brain won’t let you think about what you are look-ing at,” Lundrigan said. “Otherwise I couldn’t do the job I was doing. To see people in pieces and horrific things like that. You can do the job if you just don’t think about it. You see them and you do the job. You do what needs to be done and they either fly away or they are put in a bag. One day that memory comes back.”

Lundrigan returned to the Univer-sity of Minnesota to finish his degree in law.

In August 1974, Lundrigan passed the bar exam and became Pine River’s city attorney that same month. He worked in his father’s law firm, where he learned simple, yet effective advice.

“It’s a hard job. I enjoy my work. I practiced law with my dad for 14 years. He had two words of advice in those 14 years. ‘Be useful.’ As long as I’m

useful, here I am. He practiced law 55 years,” Lundrigan said.

Lundrigan led a life like many other peo-ple. He had children, he kept his hobbies, and for 40 years he held down a career as an attorney. At times, however, he still had to face memories from Vietnam.

“What I learned was it generally is triggered by music, smells like burning diesel fuel, sounds. Helicopters are the worst. So, you can never be sure that you have that steel lid on top of that hole. Every once in a while it would come off,” Lundrigan said.

“I can’t sit down and talk about Vietnam and what happened to me and what I did and what I saw, but

you see things.”~Ted Lundrigan


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Lundrigan credits those who were close to him with his well-being, espe-cially his second wife.

“If not for her I don’t know if I’d be alive ...” Lundrigan said. “She is such a steady influence. Such a gentle person.”

Though there were hard times, Lun-drigan said he had it better than some.

“I never let it get that deep into me to control and let it run my life,” he said.

Like many veterans, Lundrigan avoids the triggers that can bring back old memories. There are reunions for veterans from the units where he served, but Lundrigan said he has only gone to one of them, in 2004, because being around people from his earlier life can be uncomfortable.

“There are some things you don’t want to remember, and if you don’t see these people associated with that, you don’t have to remember,” he said.

Lundrigan doesn’t revisit his past much. One of the few people from the war whom he keeps in touch with is Lt.

Kenny Prichard, the “one-eared” lieu-tenant.

“He got his ear shot off and I sewed it back on. I had nothing else to do. Later on I told him that I didn’t find the ear. I said it was gone so I said I just found a camp dog, cut his ear off and sewed that on,” Lundrigan said.

Lundrigan will still tell little stories about the French villas of the moun-tains, the 10-foot tall elephant grass tied in tunnels above the roads and oc-casionally a victory story where he suc-ceeded in saving a life.

Today, Lundrigan is an avid grouse hunter and bird dog trainer. He loves the hobby so much he’s been featured in magazines, newspapers and three books of his own writing. He said he is the “last rose on the bush” as far as attorneys in his family line are con-cerned.

While his kids have no interest in law, the same can’t be said for hunting. One of his daughters was on the front

of the year 2000 Hunting and Trapping guidelines book for the state of Minne-sota.

Lundrigan said war is horrible, but it is something you can survive and rise above.

“Some people can’t. Some of them I knew, but some of them can,” Lund-rigan said.

Of course it helps if you have a good hobby, like grouse hunting.

“It’s therapy,” Lundrigan said.

TRAVIS GRIMLER can be reached at [email protected]. Fol-

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